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A Nation of Descendants: Politics and the Practice of Genealogy in US History
by Francesca Morgan.
North Carolina, 301 pp., £27.95, October 2021,978 1 4696 6478 1 Show More
by Francesca Morgan.
North Carolina, 301 pp., £27.95, October 2021,
“... his family – but as ‘the saga of us as a people’: a template for the stories of all Black Americans, one which seemed to demonstrate that despite the systematic destruction of formal family ties by chattel slavery, children of the African diaspora could still recover family histories stretching back to the continent of their ancestors. Drawing ... ”